About Me
I'm an early career environmental scientist, aspiring to make meaningful contributions to the field of soil biogeochemistry and pass along my excitement to others. The majority of my work has focused on microbiologically driven cycling of carbon and nitrogen in soils. My first lab projects focused on the culturing of facultative iron reducers, but I quickly moved on to conducting landscape scale inventories of soil carbon stocks following land use change. Since then, I've focused on the role of substrate quality on the efficiency of the decomposition processes (i.e., the partitioning of C to microbial biomass vs. CO2). I find that working at the intersection of multiple disciplines, as well as spatial and temporal scales, is especially difficult and in turn rewarding. I'm currently exploring new identities as a professional, mentor, and educator. Besides my involvement in scientific endeavors, I enjoy analog photography, taking public transit, biking, foraging for mushrooms, and tinkering on various projects (with varying levels of success). |